dhananjaysingh

Using this plugin you can associate one image with each of your category created in wordpress. and you can call that image by using provided function in any template file 
 tejus_dj_getcatimg($catid) 
call this function in any template file it will return url of that image. 
where $catid is category id of that category. 
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category image

Using this plugin you can add images to categories

Marios Alexandrou

Ultimate Category Excluder, abbreviated as UCE, is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and searches. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!

Ultimate Category Excluder

Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.

category image vs Ultimate Category Excluder